Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray